Factors Affecting East Asian Views of the United States: The Search for Common Ground

Based on more than 90 interviews in 7 East Asian countries, the author describes how positive images of the United States are fading in that region. East Asians still admire the United States' innovative spirit and idealism_even concerning human rights_and would welcome greater exchange and cooperation on social problems facing both the United States and the region. This would help attain a goal both deeply value: creation of a "civil society."

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